George Brown MARTIN

(1876-1945)

Senate Years of Service:

1918-1919

Party:

Democrat

MARTIN, George Brown,
(grandson of John Preston Martin), a Senator from Kentucky; born in
Prestonsburg, Floyd County, Ky., August 18, 1876; moved with his
parents to Catlettsburg, Boyd County, Ky., in 1877; attended the
public schools and graduated from Centre University, Richmond (now
at Danville), Ky., in 1895; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1900 and commenced practice in Catlettsburg, Ky.; general counsel
and director of the Big Sandy & Kentucky River Railway Co.;
vice president, Ohio Valley Electric Railway Co.; director,
Kentucky-Farmers Bank of Catlettsburg; county judge of Boyd County
in 1904; member of the Council of National Defense for Kentucky in
1917; appointed major in the Judge Advocate General’s
Department of the United States Army, but did not serve, having
been appointed Senator; appointed on September 7, 1918, as a
Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Ollie M. James and served from September 7, 1918, to
March 3, 1919; was not a candidate for election to the full term;
chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of
Agriculture (Sixty-fifth Congress); resumed the practice of law in
Catlettsburg, Ky., where he died November 12, 1945; interment in
Catlettsburg Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present